02/07/2024
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The Darker Sounds, Vol.23
Up here, the sky is a diffuse canvas, a green aurora over a ghostly land. Lichens lie on damp ground like fishing nets over the sound. Fog wafts like delicate smoke from hoarfrost in the cool wind. The sparse vegetation blurs. It darkens remnants of light from clammy clay. Where the wild grasses stand. No human has ever been there, elves live and fairies walk. Smell the aniseed-cold breath. It comes from where the trolls live. They hide in the caves before dawn. They say they would otherwise turn to stone. Come, let us follow the green veils, the glowing mists of geosmin.
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Fischersund is the label of Jón Þór Birgisson, the singer and guitarist of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. In addition to its own fragrances, the store also sells art objects, tea, blankets and more. It is "a place where people can come and rest in their senses, a space that communicates directly with your senses, be it through smell, sound, touch or taste." Father Birgir works the tin cans for solids and packaging by hand, they say. I like that kind of thing. In fact, as soon as you visit the homepage, the warm and spherical sounds of the music transport you to an inner peace of Icelandic remoteness. The perfumes of the house have a similar effect on me, despite a certain amount of sythetics. The fragrances of the dark 'Skammdegi' series (No.23, No.54 and Flotholt), which I will deal with in three reviews, create diffusely cool images of barren Nordic landscapes, earthy and damp, herbaceous green and misty, the smell of geosmin seems omnipresent.
"No.23" was the house's first release and is therefore also the beginning of my journey into the land of nature spirits. Birgisson takes a very pared-down approach here. You enter the damp earth of Iceland for the first time, perceiving sour grasses and loamy roots, aniseed cools the air, flickering like green northern lights in the sky. Pepper provides a certain smoky, foggy tingle at the beginning, like spicy, cool hoarfrost, lightly underpinned by light tobacco leaf. This is followed by a night-filling, moderate to skin-deep fade-out of geosmin, grasses and flickers of aniseed.
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Fischersund is the label of Jón Þór Birgisson, the singer and guitarist of the Icelandic post-rock band Sigur Rós. In addition to its own fragrances, the store also sells art objects, tea, blankets and more. It is "a place where people can come and rest in their senses, a space that communicates directly with your senses, be it through smell, sound, touch or taste." Father Birgir works the tin cans for solids and packaging by hand, they say. I like that kind of thing. In fact, as soon as you visit the homepage, the warm and spherical sounds of the music transport you to an inner peace of Icelandic remoteness. The perfumes of the house have a similar effect on me, despite a certain amount of sythetics. The fragrances of the dark 'Skammdegi' series (No.23, No.54 and Flotholt), which I will deal with in three reviews, create diffusely cool images of barren Nordic landscapes, earthy and damp, herbaceous green and misty, the smell of geosmin seems omnipresent.
"No.23" was the house's first release and is therefore also the beginning of my journey into the land of nature spirits. Birgisson takes a very pared-down approach here. You enter the damp earth of Iceland for the first time, perceiving sour grasses and loamy roots, aniseed cools the air, flickering like green northern lights in the sky. Pepper provides a certain smoky, foggy tingle at the beginning, like spicy, cool hoarfrost, lightly underpinned by light tobacco leaf. This is followed by a night-filling, moderate to skin-deep fade-out of geosmin, grasses and flickers of aniseed.
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